Defensive resilience is not normally a characteristic you associate with Norwich City on their travels, but they showed plenty of it to claim a rare away win and thwart Sheffield United’s search for a fifth successive Championship victory.

Daniel Farke’s side had conceded four goals in each of their first two away matches of the new campaign, contributing to a dismal record in 2017 in which the Canaries have conceded an average of more than two goals per game on the road.

It was a different story, however, as Norwich successfully withstood everything injury-hit United could throw at them after Yanic Wildschut had fired them in front midway through the first half to claim a third successive clean sheet.